Sentences with phrase «as a lobbyist»

The group had registered as a lobbyist in 2014 and was required to submit details about donations and expenditures.

He's also worked as a lobbyist for the horse industry.

He has since worked as a lobbyist for the aerospace community.

A: The central bank's role should be to regulate commercial banks and their lending policies, not serve as their lobbyist as presently is the case.

This means that the unions can rally their rank - and - file members to serve as lobbyists at the state and local levels.

Individuals who have registered with the state as lobbyists within the past year are also prohibited from serving on the commission.

The findings come after a drip - feed of minor corruption stories, with MPs and peers regularly being dragged into sting operations by journalists posing as lobbyists.

The commission also seeks to have the city raise the threshold at which one must register as a lobbyist from $ 2,000 to $ 5,000.

So - called community leaders and race - relations experts should be seen as lobbyists not representatives.

But emails with anyone outside of the administration — such as lobbyists, company executives, or reporters — usually have to be made public upon request.

He is the son of a civil servant and worked as a lobbyist before being elected.

Major issues during the 2014 legislative session included creating a new budget, a pay raise for teachers, Common Core and banning legislators from serving as lobbyists immediately following their departure.

For example, I performed a couple of searches around topics that I deal with frequently in my role as a lobbyist for the newspaper industry — public records and open meeting laws.

The paper claims that there are over two dozen Conservative candidates who have a good chance of becoming MPs currently working as lobbyists or PR consultants.

In my day job as a lobbyist and lawyer for the news media, I fight against secrecy in government and business.

He had not registered as a lobbyist in New York for the company until signing on to push legislation on Oct. 15, according to a lobbying contract.

He has extensive experience as a lobbyist at the federal, state and local levels for business interests, including Fortune 500 companies.

He worked for Andrew Cuomo for two years at HUD before leaving for a career as a lobbyist in the private sector.

EuropaCorp has released a brand new image from director John Madden's (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) gun control drama Miss Sloane, which stars Jessica Chastain as a lobbyist who faces off against the powerful gun lobby when fighting for tighter firearms regulations.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler got his start as a lobbyist for the cable and wireless industries.

Bharara is also investigating Governor Cuomo's former top aide, as well as a lobbyist associated with the Cuomo family for potential fraud.

During the Clinton years, Holmstead spent his time as a lobbyist for Latham & Watkins.

Despite Lynn's years as a lobbyist for Raytheon, a defense contractor, the administration appointed him as Deputy Secretary of Defense.

Our Philadelphia founding member, Helen Gym, shared news reports that her group, Parents United for Public Education, and others have filed an ethics complaint against the William Penn Foundation and the Boston Consulting Group, alleging that BCG was acting as a lobbyist when it developed a plan for the School District of Philadelphia including major school closures and charter expansion, funded through and at the direction of the foundation.

Of the 988 meetings ministers held with outside organisations in 2012 just two were with companies which are formally defined as lobbyists, the Guardian reported.

Howe also worked as a lobbyist on behalf of COR Development, the Syracuse - based commercial real estate firm whose executives, Aiello and Gerardi, are accused of bribing Percoco with $ 35,000 for his help on a host of issues related their projects in Syracuse and Central New York.

A close personal adviser to Cuomo in his bid to become state attorney general in 2006 and his run for governor in 2010, she deregistered as a lobbyist in 2010 when Cuomo and her ex-husband, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, were elected, in order «to avoid even the appearance of a conflict» of interest.

Howe had represented a number of companies with business before the Buffalo Billion and was listed as a lobbyist for SUNY Poly, which plays a key role in distributing economic development spending.

Delrahim's other, older clients included AT&T, which he represented as a lobbyist in 2007 and 2008, federal records show.

The company recently dropped Pigeon's firm as its lobbyist amid a joint federal - state probe into his activities.

A slew of prominent communications firms may be forced to register as lobbyists under a proposal by the state ethics commission, JCOPE.

A West Side neighborhood group has filed an ethics complaint against Kristen John Foy, a top lieutenant of Al Sharpton's National Action Network, for failing to register as a lobbyist even though he's promoting Airbnb.

ALBANY — Five public relations firms have brought a federal suit seeking to block the Joint Commission on Public Ethics from enforcing the portion of a recent advisory opinion that would treat people paid to discuss legislation with editorial writers as lobbyists.

Rick Lazio, on the other hand, spent the last decade protecting Wall Street banks and earning millions as a lobbyist.»

Todd Howe, the Washington - based lobbyist who is under federal investigation and has close ties to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has quietly been added to a state ethics website as a lobbyist for entities also tied up in the probe.

In 2015, Regan left the Cuomo administration and returned to Whiteman Osterman as a lobbyist in the Albany office.

Ms Abbott warned that Mr Smith's history as a lobbyist for US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer would count against him when it came to the ballot of party members which will decide the leadership contest.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's subpoenas cover companies that have won state contracts using Patricia Lynch Associates as their lobbyist, sources said.

As The News reported last month, disgraced former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver stopped pushing for the bill after the state Catholic Conference hired a former longtime aide as a lobbyist.

[7] In the years that Holmstead was disclosed as a lobbyist for coal interests, those client companies have paid Holmstead's firm over $ 10.7 million.

While Jeff Holmstead has been a polluter ally as a lobbyist, he also worked internally to undermine the Clean Air Act during his time as EPA Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation.

It's his business as a lobbyist against AGW.

Retired lobbyist David Piccioli taught as a substitute for one day, which under Illinois's extremely generous union - backed state pension rules entitles him to $ 31,485 per year from the state Teachers Retirement System, calculated based on his pay as a lobbyist.

The government could legislate to ensure misbehaving peers are booted out of the Lords, Nick Clegg has suggested, as lobbyists face permanent expulsion from parliament.